Re: [webmin-l] can't get bind within Webmin to do a zone transfer from DNS on Windows

[John H. <web...@ew...>]

Dale-List wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have been pulling what is left of my hair out here :)
>
> Currently our primary DNS is running on a windows box using MS DNS. I 
> am trying to get our secondary setup on a Linux box running BIND and 
> Webmin. I have allowed the IP of our Linux box in the windows DNS 
> setup to do a zone transfer, yet I get the following error when I do a 
> force update from within the bind module in Webmin:
>
> NDC command failed: rndc: connect failed: connection refused
>
> No entries in the system logs. I am not sure where to check from here. 
> I do not believe there are any firewall issues involved here (although 
> I could be very wrong).
>
> Thanks

Find the rndc key on the winders box. LQQk at the file name. Look at the 
rndc call in the named.conf file on the Linux box and LQQk at the file 
name. Sometimes it is rndc-key, sometimes rndckey, etc.

John Hinton